On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:59:44PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On 9 Jun 2000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
>
> > mantel@suse.de (Hubert Mantel) writes:
> >
> > >If my oracle database lives on a software RAID, I cannot even update to
> > >2.2.16 with some distributions.
> >
> > If your oracle database lives on a software RAID, you're in the wrong
> > business. :-)
>
> I wouldn't be so quick to say that. It's long been the opnion of the gurus
> on l-k that software raid can be and often is superior to most hardware
> raid solutions.
Additionally it is also possible to use software striped or mirrored
hardware RAID partitions, thereby doubling (or more!) your theoretical
throughput. Depends on the particular application, of course.
Austin
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